iPhone 6s Plus vs Galaxy Note 5 [Specs And Features Comparison]

Here’s a side-by-side comparison between Apple iPhone 6s Plus vs Samsung Galaxy Note 5. If you’re torn between the two of the most popular 2015 flagship smartphones, the comparison below should give you a idea on which one to get.

The iPhone 6s Plus and Galaxy Note 5 are both large, beautifully crafted pieces of hardware that some people like to call “phablet” genre of devices. You could be forgiven for taking a quick glance at each phone and make comparisons between the two based on size and pure visual appearance. The fact is that while they do have undeniable similarities, they both have astronomical differences under the hood and in the features they provide, and below we take a look at these differences in side-by-side specs and features comparison.

Both are available right now to purchase. The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 starts at around the $700 mark for 32GB unlocked and SIM-free option. The iPhone 6s Plus, on the other hand, costs $749 for 16GB unlocked and SIM-free model.

Check out the full technical specification chart below to compare every aspect of the two devices.

As you can see from the specs and feature highlights above, both smartphones are powerful and solid in their own right. As for which one should you get? That totally depends on which platform and ecosystem you are tied into. Also since both smartphones are brand new, with Note 5 being released only in the month of August and iPhone 6s Plus being released in September, any phone you buy now should easily last you two years. Really, you can’t go wrong with either.

So which one are you planning to get? Share your thoughts with us in the comments section below.

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Omg Apple is soooooo much better than Samsung at making phones. What crazy cat would want a Samsung ever???
Haters queue below

Patrick Gina

who needs that stupid gimmick 3d force-touch your ass.

Haven’t you tried on on Macbook yet? Fucking stupid and the most useless “feature” straight from Crook’s faggy labs.

Patrick Gina

obviously, Crooks’ dick is deep down your throat, you are choking there, iFag.

w.turner

omg you are crazy have you seen an iPhone before?? they are SO much better!!! Who is Crook? I think you might mean Tim Cook? You should spell his name right, he’s amazing bringing amazing products to the market!!!

totempole90

Is the 12watt fast charger the stock one that comes with the iPhone 6s/6sPlus? Can someone tell me how many watts came with the previous 6/6Plus last year?

nope. you need to buy it separately from Apple Store. All iPhones ship with 5W adapter in the box.

Mehul

While iPhone is best cell available , note 5 is best n most powerful non apple device. Now with aluminum and glass replacing plastic Samsung is in level with Apple as far as finish is concerned. It’s now for Google to work on android and give a platform like iOS which is far smoother on almost half the specifications of hardware.

TechGuy

Only one option if you are in Europe!

droopyar

Note5 is superior. The best phone in the market.

Sachin

He is only copying features dimensions from Samsung. Can’t you read the specs list Samsung is double than apple in all features.

Aws Alani

Finally a find a smart person, not the usual android/ios bashing crew. I am an android user and I have almost given up because of all the bugs and late updates that android has, I have used an android since the HTC Hero but it’s just not good enough now that ios works like a charm

X-47B

So how is this Yes by default? You could aslo buy some keyboard accessory, does that mean iphone or Note has a keyboard?

Patrick Gallagher

The specs list is double, so why is the phone so much slower? seriously look at independent benchmarks – Android needs 4x the power to match performance.

kgs

It’s statements like this that cause me to completely pass up reading comments. Low class, sounds stupid, and makes me wonder why these comments are allowed to remain. Grow up.

Patrick Gina

yes, if you are into Sesame Street tech, you are in the wrong place to begin with. Get lost.

kgs

Get educated.

Adam Aragon

I’d guess if anything Samsung is copying Apple. They have grown closer and closer in design, materials and finish. Also there is double the specs in exactly 2 categories that being RAM/CPU however year after year the benchmarks prove that the iPhone holds it’s own and is often first in line for performance. It’s not ‘double in all features’ it’s double on the very few features that mean nothing between the two platforms.

Just a few corrections on the side by side comparison.
The LIVE Photo feature on the iphone 6s an 6s+ has been available on Samsung devices since the S2, is called animated photo.
There is a 128gb version of the note 5 available which is not listed here.
Only 1 type of payment method mention Samsung pay, forgot to mention Android Pay and google wallet.

PeteCee

Paddy likes to “3D touch” himself to pictures of Tim “Crook”.

Diego

for a longer lasting phone note 5 is not the best.

Diego

The note 5 is not a pro device anymore and they say apple is known to milk users for Storage.
Samsung trying to be like the iPhone lost a lot of customers like my self.
Another problem is touchwiss aka sirius samsung lag.
With will affect people an a few months.
Thats why I have a moto x stile.
As my android phone I also have an iPhone so I use both.

Diego

Lol
samsung is going to do it.
seriously man by the end of 2016 every phone is going to have it.

Diego

someone ban this fucking clown.

John Gina

Use that “3D Touch” to force a dildo up Crooks ass while your mom farts on granolla bars and collects her social security disability check

Sam Parr

Some phones don’t support fast charging at all, this is the point, the Iphone does.

That Guy

Don’t bother on this Site. Redmond Pie is Apple Biased like Crazy.

Rockinrony

Not a new story…..Since the beginning any android phone have much much higher numbers in specs sheets than apple, still android lags, crashes, hangs and much slower than iphone. You are fool if you still believe on these higher numbers knowing that it still doesn’t runs smoother and reliable like iphone

Stephen Gunnoe

In my experiences, the people that I know with iPhones tend to keep their devices a lot longer than Android. Mainly because they tend to outlast and stay up to date a lot longer. You hear all the time about older Android devices not being updated anymore where as iPhones tend to be supported for a longer time period. I have a Note 5 and a 6S+. Both are great and both have drawbacks. I’m actually in the process of trying to decide which one to keep.

Patrick Gina

ok, I wouldn’t disrespect any form of disability – it’s not usually their fault.

on the other hand, faggets aren’t disabled, they are just dirty perverts.

Patrick Gina

I’ll get your stupid ass banned by Crook the fagget – how does that sound?

Diego

You talk a lot of shit for a troll.
But we all know that when it coms down to it you can’t do anything.

Patrick Gina

down to what? Telling you to ease up on sucking Crook’s dick?

Shinonuke

Let me clarify something for you. iPhone utilized a different type of charging with the new lightning cable. It still uses 5watt with 1 amp tha provide very fast charging. Since Android phones aren’t able to figure out how to do it the same way as iPhone, they up the capacitor in the charging to support 12 watt charging. iPhones do not need a 12 watt charger to charge fast because it is fast already

Alan

It’s because apple loads there phones with bare minimum and charges you the maximum! Samsung includes every feature in there phones and with that much stuff stuffed in a small phone it will lag! Even the best computers in the world lag! Apple phones lag all the time apple just covers up the fact with animations and with iOS 9 it’s super buggy and laggy it’s been proven! Bottom line is apple steals ideas from other companies and renamed it and then markets as if they created it force touch or as you will say “3D Touch” has been around for years! Why is it even called 3D Touch? It’s not 3 dementional in anyway just another consumer attention grabbing gimmick! Samsung offers the best experience because they offer every thing they have to offer there for when you stuff a full size computer into a tiny phone with a decent processor there will be lag! iPhone is just as laggy but you isheep won’t admit it because you think apple actually is innovative! If Samsung fixed there battery issues they would be unbeatable!

Alan

Because Samsung offers more features than apple! When you load down a system on anything it gets laggy and slow making it require more power to run! The resolution on Samsung phones is more than double the iPhones and with that comes more power consumption and processing power! iOS 9 is a garbage update and it only added 3D Touch to its list of can do’s and that one feature made the entire system buggy and laggy! Imagine if they added just one more feature, they would have had a phone that took a min to open one app! You can say Samsung copied apple all day long until your voice gives out but I case your not educated Samsung makes 90% of the iPhones components! more features require more power to run said features and this is why the iPhone beats the Samsung in benchmark tests because apple puts bare minimum in there phones and then claims they have the best processor ever put into s phone when in fact it’s just the same processor as the previous just clocked higher and renamed the A9! Even with it clocked higher it still lags because of the gimmick called 3D Touch which is in no way 3 dementional what so ever just a stupid attention grabbing name! Every feature that apple includes in there next iteration of iPhones has been around for years yet all you apple lovers actually to your core believe that they invented said features! Next year I bet they include wireless charging and call it air charge and your actually gonna believe they invented wireless charging! Samsung lags so bad and is beat by apple in benchmark tests because they have 80% more features than the iPhone has! I mean for fucks sake you can’t even download files from your iPhones web browser with out a jailbreak what kind of shit is that!

Rockinrony

LOL…..how u can hide lag with animation ? 😛 more animation bring higher usage of processor/ram. That hide lags ? ROFL….what a silly silly excuse to hide your fake 4gb android 😀 Hey dude, I know ios 9 is buggy, I agree on that. I am not of those blind users who tries to hide and give fake encouragement to my choice. yes, IOS9 is buggy, but surely not buggy and laggy as android. And we are not talking about who invented what, we are discussing about overall performance. Not just this post, there are hundreds of videos on youtube which shows note5 lags than iphone 6s. To understand this, first you have to come out of 4gb ram 2gb ram thing

Seize the moment

which device did you keep and why?

Dak

Is animated photo a Google Play Store add on?

David Therriault

I like both android and IOS I had a note 5 for a week and got the 6s plus instead the iPhone is just more stable the note 5 may have more ram and faster processor but the android system bogs it down the iPhone responds and loads faster

josh swayze

You degenerate, the a9 has an entirly different architecture it had more transistors, a shorter 12nm process and a much better gpu, please do you research before spanming garabage. Also its calles 3d touch becuase you press inward on the screen and the harder you press the farther it goes in therfore adding another dimension to the screen. Also apple design all of their own part samsung just manufactures SOME of the parts thats it.

Lisa Batts

Which one did you decide on? I’m in the same situation – have both and deciding which one to keep. So far I really love the saturated colors when watching videos on the Note 5 and taking notes by hand with the Note’s pen. I have owned iPhone software since they came out and have the whole integrated system with my iMac and iPad but find myself honestly just getting bored with the iPhone even though it’s a great phone. Wonder if I should keep both! 🙂

Marc Dub

Lol lies my phone charges twice as fast as my sister’s 6s plus

Marc Dub

The note 5 does. Lol. Argument over.

Shinonuke

Why don’t you look up the specs on android’s rapid chargers? You’ll see that it utilizes a higher watt specs instead of the standard 5watt for charging

Crowns

Does the 12w adapter come with ipad in box? The detachable 2-part adapter.

Thelonelystoner

Had to make the same choice the other day I ended up taking the note 5. It’s pretty cool there’s a feature called 3d pic that the iPhone 6s didn’t have. I also got the s2 watch. Which I think kills the apple watch by far because I leave my note 5 at home and just wear the watch most of the time. It comes with its own phone # and I also get phone calls/messages/emails forwarded from my note 5 so I’m always connected something apple does not have yet.